Statement by John Raisian, Director of the Hoover Institution, Stanford
University

June 22, 2014 05:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time

STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--It is with profound sadness that we learned of the passing of Fouad
Ajami, who lost his battle with cancer on Sunday.

Fouad is truly one of the most brilliant Middle East scholars of our
time. His Hoover Institution family will forever miss his superb
scholarship, quick wit and gentle spirit. As we reflect upon a man whose
life and intellectual contributions influenced so many, our thoughts and
prayers go to his lovely wife, Michelle.

Fouad Ajami was born September 18, 1945 in Arnoun, Lebanon. Ajami was a
senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, and more recently the Herbert
and Jane Dwight Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and co-chair of
the Hoover Institution's Working Group on Islamism and the International
Order. He is the author of The Arab Predicament; The
Vanished Imam: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon; Beirut:
City of Regrets; The Dream Palace of the Arabs; and The
Foreigner's Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq.
His most recent publication is The Syrian Rebellion (Hoover
Institution Press, 2012). His writings also include some four hundred
essays on Arab and Islamic politics, US foreign policy, and contemporary
international history. Ajami has received numerous awards, including the
Benjamin Franklin Award for public service (2011), the Eric Breindel
Award for Excellence in Opinion Journalism (2011), the Bradley Prize
(2006), the National Humanities Medal (2006), and the MacArthur Fellows
Award (1982). His research has charted the road to 9/11, the Iraq war,
and the US presence in the Arab-Islamic world.